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As bizarre as it sounds, this unexpected and unappetizing substance is actually a gold mine of information, which can tell us all sorts of things about the animal it belonged to, as well as the pollutants present in our oceans. 🧪

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K2-18b is back in the news recently, thanks to newly published research that is destined to be discussed for a long time.. Here's what there is to know about this detection and where it sits in the search for extraterrestrial life. Spoilers alert: no aliens 👽 www.iflscience.com/an-exoplanet... 🔭🧪

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Scientists have created nugget-sized bits of chicken meat in a bioreactor that can mimic the blood vessels to deliver nutrients and oxygen to the artificial tissue. Researchers suggest their technology offers an “[...] ethical alternative to conventional meat.” 🧪 www.iflscience.com/lab-grown-ch...

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Keepers at Chester Zoo in the UK were quick to notice when 25-year-old Rico, a Linnaeus's two-toed sloth, developed a swelling on the side of his face. The zoo team performed a CT scan on Rico, which revealed that he had two root abscesses. www.iflscience.com/rico-the-two...

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The calendar we use is a bit of a mess. That’s why French Revolutionaries in the late 18th century tossed out the old Christian calendar and designed a radical new system: one that was clean, logical, and secular. It didn’t go well. www.iflscience.com/in-1792-fran...

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IFLScience caught up with NatGeo explorer and filmmaker Bertie Gregory to find out more about what it’s like filming penguins in the wild 🐧 #SecretsOfThePenguins youtu.be/1cc-I9pp7oY

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The team asked 7,800 Americans about their views on 35 different scientific professions, ranging from anthropologists to biologists and atomic physicists. They also examined the differences between those who identified as conservative and those as liberal. 🧪🔭 www.iflscience.com/us-conservat...

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Researchers believe that pair 2M1510 is orbited by a planet in a "polar", or perpendicular, orbit. This is the first time we've seen strong evidence for a stellar pair being orbited by a polar planet. 🔭🧪 www.iflscience.com/new-planet-i...

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The idea that the seeds of life may have originated on another planet is far from new, but is there any value to it? 🧪 www.iflscience.com/did-the-seed...

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"We've discovered a new type of a new type of quasiparticle. We've discovered something that's actually axion-like, which has never been done before" 🧪 www.iflscience.com/tunable-dark...

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Hoping to keep tabs on the magnetic north's wandering ways, the World Magnetic Model 2025 reveals the latest official predicted placement of Earth's magnetic fields. www.iflscience.com/what-is-the-...

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“We found that the percentage of nonparents who don’t want any children rose from 14 percent in 2002 to 29 percent in 2023”

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An unknown tribe of ancient hunter-gatherers that lived on the south Texas coast may have made music using modified human bones. 🦴 www.iflscience.com/unknown-trib...

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Behold: a live colossal squid in all its glory. After a century of searching, the extremely elusive cephalopod has been caught on camera alive in its natural habitat for the first time! 🧪🦑 www.iflscience.com/after-100-ye...

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Tourists and researchers on a whale-watching boat off the coast of Western Australia got a little more action than they bargained for when they witnessed a pygmy blue whale being hunted and eventually predated upon by a huge pod of orcas. www.iflscience.com/incredibly-r...

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What do you get if you cross a rockhopper penguin with a macaroni penguin? According to National Geographic’s new series, Secrets Of The Penguins, you get a “rockaroni”. www.iflscience.com/rockaroni-pe...

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Crows, the undisputed math nerds of the bird world, have done it again. This time, though, it’s not arithmetic or philosophy of math that they’ve conquered – it’s geometry. www.iflscience.com/crows-once-a...

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CT scans could soon account for 5% of all new cancer cases diagnosed annually if current practices persist. It sounds scary; but how serious is this risk, and what does it mean for the use of CT scans going forward? 🧪 www.iflscience.com/ct-scans-cou...

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The type of asteroids that could have brought water and life to Earth make up half of those expected to hit us, but we find few meteorites from them. Why? 🔭 www.iflscience.com/scientists-m...

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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

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“All Theories Have Limitations!”: What Lies Beyond The Standard Model Of Particle Physics? IFLScience correspondent @drcarpineti.bsky.social traveled to CERN to get an exclusive insight into the crucial theory of particle physics, its limitations, and what might lie beyond. 🧪🔭

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Kennedy has claimed that a definitive cause of increasing #autism diagnoses will be announced this September. But that’s not how scientific investigations work. 🧪

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A huge bridge has appeared across California’s Ventura Freeway – but this isn’t just any old overpass. This one is set to be the world’s largest wildlife crossing, and it’s being built with the aim of reconnecting some of the state’s most important animal life. www.iflscience.com/the-worlds-l...

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American singer and songwriter #KatyPerry is getting blasted into space today, part of an all-female mission run by private space firm Blue Origin. 🔭 www.iflscience.com/watch-live-a...

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Known by those native to its island territory as the “ghost of the forest”, these flightless birds are not only an emblem of the archipelago, but also bear a curious feature found in no other known species of bird. www.iflscience.com/meet-the-kag...

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A tragic accident that befell ancient rhinos in the mid-Miocene era has allowed scientists to determine that these massive mammals, which once thrived across North America, used to gather in huge super-herds. 🧪 www.iflscience.com/ancient-rhin...

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An answer to this puzzle could open the path to variations that could save a lot of lives. 🧪

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What Are Those Patterns You See When You Close Your Eyes?

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Until the 1960s, the Aral Sea was one of the largest inland reservoirs of water in the world. Over seven decades, the lake first split into smaller lakes, until most of its original surface had completely evaporated, leaving behind a desert.

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After just a few months, La Niña conditions have subsided and the eastern tropical Pacific has entered an ENSO-neutral phase that’s expected to continue in the Northern Hemisphere until summer.

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The baffling specimen is so bizarre that its exact evolutionary relationships remain frustratingly elusive

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To the common ear, it might sound like a charming mash-up of West Country English, Scottish, and Irish, with perhaps a sprinkling of "pirate accent"

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The US Just Got Its First "National Park City" After Making A Green Bounce Back

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The weeks biggest, weirdest, and most controversial #science stories, direct to your ears. 🎧 www.iflscience.com/dire-wolves-...

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The small mass of the neutrino has been a crucial quest in physics and we still do not know exactly how light they are – but brand new research has shrunk our region of ignorance. 🧪 www.iflscience.com/the-possible...

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A new study has examined 8 million speeches from 140 years of Congress, showing a massive decline in evidence-based language since the 1970s. www.iflscience.com/use-of-facts...

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We caught a supermassive black hole waking up for the first time, but the flares it has been emitting are quite odd. There might be something lurking in its accretion disk! 🔭🧪 www.iflscience.com/we-caught-a-...

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NASA's Perseverance rover has captured unexpected footage of one dust devil consuming another during an imaging experiment. 🔭 www.iflscience.com/nasas-persev...

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The confirmation hearing for the next head of NASA took place yesterday, April 9, with Trump’s nominee, billionaire and private astronaut Jared Isaacman, answering questions from the senators in the committee. 🔭 www.iflscience.com/billionaire-...

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Jared Isaacman, CEO of Shift4 Payments and an occasional commercial astronaut, has answered questions on his plans for the USA's space program during a confirmation hearing for the role of NASA chief. 🔭 www.iflscience.com/nasa-chief-n...

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As well as the dangers that come with acute measles infection, which can even be fatal, people who recover from the disease can unknowingly store up health issues that only emerge years later. One of the most concerning is SSPE. 🧪 www.iflscience.com/what-is-sspe...

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Earth’s ice sheets and glaciers are melting at such a rate it’s changing the way the Earth spins, causing it to wobble off its usual axis. www.iflscience.com/earths-rotat...

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On November 16, 1974, the incredible Arecibo radio telescope was used not to receive radio light from the universe but to send out a message to the stars. 🔭 www.iflscience.com/50-years-ago...

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We bloody love a nature documentary. They bring the wild into our homes so that we can travel the globe from the safety of our sofas, but every now and then, they deliver a scene so heartbreaking it stays with you for a long time. 💔 www.iflscience.com/hippos-appea...

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Earth is no stranger to geomagnetic storms, but none have rivaled the one sparked by the most powerful solar storm on record: the Carrington Event of 1859. www.iflscience.com/the-carringt...

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Killer Fungus In “The Last Of Us” Gets A Deadly Upgrade Inspired By Real Life 🧪🍄 - You’re gonna’ want to hold your breath for this one. www.iflscience.com/killer-fungu...

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Thanks to a combination of genetic, palaeoecological, and archaeological evidence, scientists have uncovered one of Homo Sapiens' first homelands outside of Africa. 🧪 www.iflscience.com/scientists-h...

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Silver: it makes for nice jewelry, fancy forks, and even parts of the device you’re using to read this article. But would you eat it? Some people do, claiming that silver in the form of colloidal supplements is the answer to all manner of ills. www.iflscience.com/people-are-t...

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Sweet, savory, sour, bitter, and umami are the five classic tastes our tongues are trained to detect. But lurking on the edge of this flavorful lineup is a lesser-known sensation. 🧪 www.iflscience.com/the-sixth-ta...

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